Where's all the silver???

[Cutaplug]

Went out yesterday and found 22 wheats and 1 indian head hunting some residential houses and vaccant lots. Didn't find one silver Only one spill of 3 wheats. Anyone else had numbers like that before?

 

[E-TREC-Virginia]

Yes, just last weekend. 13 wheats and 3 injuns and not one silver. It's there, just need to put your coil over it.

 

[tippyhound]

More times then I want to talk about. Once while hunting a private residence I went home with over 30 Wheat Pennies and no silver. I Actually got tired of digging them.

 

[Cutaplug]

@ Virginia - Those are the days that I just can't quite hunting lol.

@ Tippy - holly smokes that's a lot. Yesterday I got to the point where I was checking my descrim and wondering if I was going deep enough. Pulled a wheat at a measured 9" so I think maybe it was just a poor town back then =)

 

[nge]

@ Virginia - Those are the days that I just can't quite hunting lol.

@ Tippy - holly smokes that's a lot. Yesterday I got to the point where I was checking my descrim and wondering if I was going deep enough. Pulled a wheat at a measured 9" so I think maybe it was just a poor town back then =)

Naw, it's just all us old timers with the old B.F.O. machines that cleaned out most of this country, back in the 60's and 70's........nge

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Now and then I think we all hunt sites where the Silver has been "cherry picked" by someone else in the past.
Since you found that many Wheat's - there's probably still some Silver there they missed - I'd go back and hunt the site again ... swinging, really slow - from different directions

Good luck !

 

[JMT Detectors]

My first detector was a Jetco BFO detector. Definitely a different type of detector compared to todays detectors. I actually found several coins with it even though it was a cheap detector with a large coil.The good old days..

@ Tippy - holly smokes that's a lot. Yesterday I got to the point where I was checking my descrim and wondering if I was going deep enough. Pulled a wheat at a measured 9" so I think maybe it was just a poor town back then =)[/quote] Naw, it's just all us old timers with the old B.F.O. machines that cleaned out most of this country, back in the 60's and 70's........nge[/quote]

 

[nge]

I got a radio Shack bfo for my 10th. birthday. Because my parents said I needed to burn up some extra energy......lol It worked, after 52 years

 

[E-TREC-Virginia]

I got a radio Shack bfo for my 10th. birthday. Because my parents said I needed to burn up some extra energy......lol It worked, after 52 years

I started out with a Heath Kit detector that my dad bought me back in 1972. It was a kit that you had to put together yourself. I was 12 at the time and would go detecting every single day before and after school. I was not in to coin shooting at the time and spent most of my time searching for Civil War relics. I was really lucky to live in an area with an extensive Civil War history and found lots of relics in the fields around my house. We had 10 acres and I think I covered every inch of it. I remember that I could not wait for the weekends to came around, so I could go detecting with my dad. 40 years later and I'm still hooked on this hobby.

 

[Coilfisher]

Unfortunately, yes.
I hunted an old homesite and sidewalk adjoining around Labor Day this year and pulled 3 wheats and nothing else but clad.
The site goes back to 1890ish.
Pretty impossible I thought--and I was thorough.
Going to go back in the Spring with a different machine I have.